The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing
3 years, 2 months ago

The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing

Salon  

The following contains only minor spoilers for "Squid Game," but not the finale or results of the games themselves. Right now, Netflix's "Squid Game" is commanding global attention with a show and tell that's fascinating a huge, rapt audience. One of the darker observations I read online about the appeal of "Squid Game" theorizes that at some point in the pandemic, many people might have accepted such an offer. Squid Game Then there's the misdirect of the games' innocence: One might look at the competition mounted to entertain the VIPs as a variation of "Floor Is Lava," except falling to the floor in this show actually kills people. "Squid Game" refers to a South Korean playground contest that has specific rules, but whose play revolves around roughhousing and viciousness.

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Real-life violence that inspired Squid Game left countless dead, survivors were 'frustrated' by Netflix show
20 hours, 31 minutes ago

Real-life violence that inspired Squid Game left countless dead, survivors were 'frustrated' by Netflix show

Hindustan Times  

A factory turned into a battlefield, riot police armed with tasers and an activist who spent 100 days atop a chimney -- the unrest that inspired Netflix's most successful show ever has all the hallmarks of a TV drama. Squid Game is the most-watched show in Netflix history This month sees the release of the second season of Squid Game, …

With ‘Squid Game 2’ and ‘The Leopard,’ Netflix doubles down on international appeal
1 month ago

With ‘Squid Game 2’ and ‘The Leopard,’ Netflix doubles down on international appeal

LA Times  

Is Netflix a universal language? The list includes the much anticipated sequel to the violent Korean-language drama “Squid Game,” Netflix’s most watched show ever; “The Leopard,” an Italian story about a prince in the 1860s; and the third season of the Japanese series “Alice in Borderland.” Another ambitious project: the first-ever TV adaptation of the classic novel “One Hundred Years …

Netflix users react to most ‘ridiculous’ Squid Game: The Challenge detail
1 year ago

Netflix users react to most ‘ridiculous’ Squid Game: The Challenge detail

The Independent  

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‘Squid Game’ re-enters Netflix Top 10 list as ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ viewership surges
1 year ago

‘Squid Game’ re-enters Netflix Top 10 list as ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ viewership surges

The Hindu  

Squid Game: The Challenge, the currently trending reality show inspired by the phenomenal South Korean survival drama series of the same name, has topped the weekly rating on Netflix. In Squid Game, written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, 456 players play a series of Korean’s children games with a deadly twist. The 10-episode competitive series dropped on Netflix on November …

Squid Game Vs Squid Game The challenge: 3 reasons making it the most ‘hate-watched’ series
1 year, 1 month ago

Squid Game Vs Squid Game The challenge: 3 reasons making it the most ‘hate-watched’ series

Hindustan Times  

Who in their wildest dream demanded a reality show based on the Emmy-winning Squid Game? Gear up for the newest reality series on Netflix, which revives the legendary Squid Game, and let's face it, you can love or hate it but can’t stop watching it. Squid Game The Challenge review Makers decided to turn the whole show into a reality …

Squid Game The Challenge first reviews: Gripping, exploitative reality TV defeats 2021 K-Drama's capitalism critique
1 year, 1 month ago

Squid Game The Challenge first reviews: Gripping, exploitative reality TV defeats 2021 K-Drama's capitalism critique

Hindustan Times  

Squid Game: The Challenge, a spin-off reality show of the 2021 Emmy Award-winning K-drama is dropping on Netflix on Wednesday. Squid Game: The Challenge drops on Netflix today on November 22 ‘Gripping’ reality TV “The game show uses the language of modern reality television to realize, in its own strange way, the themes in Dong-hyuk’s parable of capitalism grinding human …

Squid Game to Sex Education: 10 best international shows of 2021
2 years, 11 months ago

Squid Game to Sex Education: 10 best international shows of 2021

Hindustan Times  

For all the crippling uncertainty amidst a floundering entertainment industry trying to find its feet again, the last two years have cemented the fact that we truly live in the age of streaming. That said, from murky murder mysteries and hopeful gems to empathetic teen dramas, rich people behaving badly, superheroes acting atrociously and beyond, in no particular order, here’s …

What did these ‘Squid Game’ stars love most about the series?
3 years ago

What did these ‘Squid Game’ stars love most about the series?

LA Times  

Lee Jung-jae, the star of Netflix’s biggest hit ever — the South Korean limited series “Squid Game,” in which financially desperate contestants such as his divorced-dad character Gi-hun risk their lives for money by playing childhood games — says he could tell when filming the first episode that the show, which may return for a second season given its popularity, …

Is Squid Game the dawn of a TV revolution?
3 years ago

Is Squid Game the dawn of a TV revolution?

BBC  

Is Squid Game the dawn of a TV revolution? Squid Game has achieved global mainstream visibility in a way that arguably no other non-English language film or TV show has ever managed Non-English language movies like Parasite, Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, French romance Amélie and 2000's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon have all won Western acclaim and awards before. Now, …

The Triumph of Human Spirit Despite Odds Makes 'Squid Game' Worth a Watch
3 years ago

The Triumph of Human Spirit Despite Odds Makes 'Squid Game' Worth a Watch

The Quint  

The web series Squid Game which has been released worldwide on OTT platforms, has been discussed all over the world. I look at Squid Game from the lens of cinema here, as most web series use similar techniques as films, and equipment such as the cameras are similar too. In fact, these web series have erased the line separating films …

Months after its Netflix debut, "Squid Game" continues to encourage U.S. viewers to learn Korean
3 years, 1 month ago

Months after its Netflix debut, "Squid Game" continues to encourage U.S. viewers to learn Korean

Salon  

Shortly after its international debut, Netflix's hit series "Squid Game" spurred a newfound craze over honeycomb toffee and had viewers asking, "How much is 45.6 billion won?" Language learning app Duolingo Inc. initially reported a 40% increase in beginner Korean language learners just 10 days after the show's premiere on Sept.17. RELATED: The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes …

Squid Game: Who is the old man and what’s his role in the deadly game?
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game: Who is the old man and what’s his role in the deadly game?

The Independent  

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Squid Game, the most popular show on Netflix, was inspired by South Korea's crippling debt crisis
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game, the most popular show on Netflix, was inspired by South Korea's crippling debt crisis

ABC  

With its technicolour sets, outlandish plot and wild costumes, Squid Game might seem like just another dystopian fantasy set in the same fictional universe as The Hunger Games. Squid Game's plot, which pits the downtrodden against each other as entertainment for the rich is the perfect allegory for modern Korean society, according to Sung-Ae Lee. Many Koreans are drowning in …

Not just a game: What has made ‘Squid Game’ so popular?
3 years, 2 months ago

Not just a game: What has made ‘Squid Game’ so popular?

The Hindu  

Who would have thought a dystopian story of 465 debt-ridden contestants willing to put their lives at stake for 45.6 billion won, playing a deadly version of a children’s game, would have taken off as it did? Ever since Squid Game ’s premiere on September 17, the nine-episode Korean series directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk has been the most watched and …

Squid Game and Parasite aren't just massive South Korean crossovers, but also biting critiques of inequity
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game and Parasite aren't just massive South Korean crossovers, but also biting critiques of inequity

Firstpost  

Money and power run the world we live in today, and people – like the characters in Parasite and Squid Game – are being driven to a point where they will do anything in their capacity to gain and maintain financial security. While accepting one of the many, many awards the film Parasite won, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho asked …

‘Squid Game’ strikes nerve in debt-ridden South Korea
3 years, 2 months ago

‘Squid Game’ strikes nerve in debt-ridden South Korea

Associated Press  

SEOUL, South Korea — “Squid Game,” a brutal Netflix survival drama about desperate adults competing in deadly children’s games for a chance to escape severe debt, hit a little too close to home for Lee Chang-keun. “In ‘Squid Game,’ you see characters scrambling to survive after being laid off at work, struggling to operate fried chicken diners or working as …

Squid Game becomes Netflix's most popular series launch with 111 mn fans since September debut
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game becomes Netflix's most popular series launch with 111 mn fans since September debut

Firstpost  

By comparison, Regency romp Bridgerton reached 82 million households on debut, using Netflix’s internal metric which includes any account that watched an episode for at least two minutes. Dystopian South Korean drama Squid Game has become Netflix’s most popular series launch ever, drawing 111 million fans since its debut less than four weeks ago, the streaming service said on Tuesday. …

Squid Game, South Korea's global hit show on Netflix, speaks to financial despair of the country's youth
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game, South Korea's global hit show on Netflix, speaks to financial despair of the country's youth

Firstpost  

“The stories and the problems of the characters are extremely personalised but also reflect the problems and realities of Korean society,” says Hwang Dong-hyuk, the creator of Squid Game. In Squid Game, the hit dystopian television show on Netflix, 456 people facing severe debt and financial despair play a series of deadly children’s games to win a $38 million cash …

Schools urge parents not to let children watch Netflix’s Squid Game amid fears of copying dangerous scenes
3 years, 2 months ago

Schools urge parents not to let children watch Netflix’s Squid Game amid fears of copying dangerous scenes

The Independent  

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Squid Game is the Weird Future of Local-Global TV
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game is the Weird Future of Local-Global TV

Wired  

Unless you’re from Mexico, you would be unlikely to have ever heard of Club de Cuervos. The “one inch barrier” of subtitles, as South Korean Oscar-winner Bong Joon Ho called it, historically deterred most audiences from trying films and TV from beyond their own borders or language. “In the last two years, we have really seen breakout in non-English titles,” …

现象级韩剧《鱿鱼游戏》曝光韩国平民债务危机
3 years, 2 months ago

现象级韩剧《鱿鱼游戏》曝光韩国平民债务危机

China Daily  

近日火爆全球的现象级韩剧《鱿鱼游戏》引发了观看热潮，带火了周边产品的销售，也曝光了韩国普遍存在的债务危机。过去几年来，韩国平民负债率不断攀升，贫富差距急剧扩大，许多人都是猝不及防就陷入了债务危机。 Squid Game, which was released on 17 September, is on track to become Netflix’s most-watched show ever. 他说，房间“只比棺材稍微大一点”。 In a fictional world, Choi would not be out of place among the contestants on Squid Game, the wildly popular South Korean dystopian drama that pits the heavily indebted against each other in a macabre, blood-spattered race for an unimaginably large …

现象级韩剧《鱿鱼游戏》曝光韩国平民债务危机
3 years, 2 months ago

现象级韩剧《鱿鱼游戏》曝光韩国平民债务危机

China Daily  

近日火爆全球的现象级韩剧《鱿鱼游戏》引发了观看热潮，带火了周边产品的销售，也曝光了韩国普遍存在的债务危机。过去几年来，韩国平民负债率不断攀升，贫富差距急剧扩大，许多人都是猝不及防就陷入了债务危机。 Squid Game, which was released on 17 September, is on track to become Netflix’s most-watched show ever. 他说，房间“只比棺材稍微大一点”。 In a fictional world, Choi would not be out of place among the contestants on Squid Game, the wildly popular South Korean dystopian drama that pits the heavily indebted against each other in a macabre, blood-spattered race for an unimaginably large …

Squid Game: Netflix Slammed by Korean Speakers For 'Botching' English Subtitles
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game: Netflix Slammed by Korean Speakers For 'Botching' English Subtitles

News 18  

The massively popular survivalist Korean-drama Squid Game is all everyone is talking about since its release on September 17. She began her tweet with, ““Not to sound snobby but I’m fluent in Korean and I watched squid game with English subtitles and if you don’t understand Korean you didn’t really watch the same show. translation is extremely important.” Read: Squid …

Squid Game review: Why the biggest show today is one of the weirdest
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game review: Why the biggest show today is one of the weirdest

Live Mint  

In the middle of Netflix sensation Squid Game — where people put their lives on the line to play children’s games — there is a discussion about “the weakest link.” Variously called “kachhi-mitti” in North India or “kachha-limboo” in Western India, this is described as “a beautiful rule kids used to keep so that the weakest kid wouldn’t feel like …

Squid Game has exposed how mediocre most Netflix shows are
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game has exposed how mediocre most Netflix shows are

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The South Korean survival drama – about an elaborate …

Squid Game: Eagle-eyed viewers spot heartbreaking detail that everybody missed
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game: Eagle-eyed viewers spot heartbreaking detail that everybody missed

The Independent  

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Squid Game subtitles and dubbing prompt online debate over Netflix's translation
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game subtitles and dubbing prompt online debate over Netflix's translation

ABC  

Netflix's translation of the hit series Squid Game from Korean into English has sparked online controversy, with some Korean speakers arguing important meaning is lost in the dubbed and subtitled versions of the show. Key points: Viral tweets and TikTok videos say Squid Game's translation is so bad, a lot of meaning is lost to non-Korean viewers Experts say, however, …

Squid Game: Korean speaker slams Netflix series for ‘botched’ English subtitles, says 'Translation was so bad'
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game: Korean speaker slams Netflix series for ‘botched’ English subtitles, says 'Translation was so bad'

Hindustan Times  

Netflix's Squid Game has everyone talking. While the show has received positive reviews, a Korean speaker has called the series out for ‘botched’ English subtitles that alter the nuances of certain characters. A Twitter user, who goes by the handle Youngmi Mayer, has said that the English subtitles in a few episodes of Squid Game do not accurately represent the …

Squid Game's English subtitles 'completely change meaning of the hit Netflix show'
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game's English subtitles 'completely change meaning of the hit Netflix show'

Daily Mail  

English-speaking viewers tuning into new Netflix hit Squid Games may not understand the full story because the 'botched subtitles' completely change the show's meaning, Korean-speaking fans have claimed. Viewers who watch with English rather than close caption subtitles will read: 'I never bothered to study, but I'm incredibly smart' which is closer, but still not the same as the Korean …

Netflix's 'Squid Game,' Sanjay Dutt's 'Luck' Have the Same Plot? Indians Think So
3 years, 2 months ago

Netflix's 'Squid Game,' Sanjay Dutt's 'Luck' Have the Same Plot? Indians Think So

News 18  

Netflix’s Squid Game is currently the most popular show on the web. While the show, based on a deadly series of games, continues to stay on top of trends, desis on Twitter pointed out similarities between the plot of Squid Game and the 2009 Bollywood movie, ‘Luck’. Bollywood did squid game first yall pic.twitter.com/EFjgKuQjbn— adith🇵🇸 October 1, 2021 Me after …

‘Squid Game’ review: Netflix’s gloriously gory binge-ride from hell
3 years, 2 months ago

‘Squid Game’ review: Netflix’s gloriously gory binge-ride from hell

The Hindu  

The best way to get started on watching Netflix’s most recent phenomenon Squid Game would be to avoid reading or watching anything related to the smash-hit show. Squid Game begins with introducing us to some of the contestants: Compulsive gambler and chauffeur Seong Gi-Hun ; Cho Sang-Woo, a shrewd investment manager who is currently wanted for fraud; and North-Korean defector …

Squid Game and the rise of the ‘deadly game’ TV show
3 years, 2 months ago

Squid Game and the rise of the ‘deadly game’ TV show

The Independent  

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Korean drama Squid Game about to become 'Netflix's biggest show ever', says CEO
3 years, 2 months ago

Korean drama Squid Game about to become 'Netflix's biggest show ever', says CEO

Firstpost  

Netflix’s chief Ted Sarandos Korean thriller series Squid Game has “a very good chance” of dethroning Bridgerton to become Netflix’s most popular show yet Netflix’s new Korean drama Squid Game has taken the world by storm. Ever since its release, the South Korean drama is raking in viewership globally at a rapid pace to such an extent that it might …

Korean Survivalist Drama 'Squid Game' on Track to be Biggest Netflix Show, Beating Bridgerton
3 years, 2 months ago

Korean Survivalist Drama 'Squid Game' on Track to be Biggest Netflix Show, Beating Bridgerton

News 18  

Netflix original series, Squid Game, is currently at number one on the streaming giant around the world. Squid Game is tracking to be its biggest show ever, and is currently ranking as the number one show on the platform in several countries. Fueled by word of mouth, Squid Game is the first Korean original series ever to top spot on …

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